Evangelists Greg and Cathe Laurie celebrated the “blessing” of talking about Jesus with Beatles drummer Ringo Starr.
“It was fun meeting you, a living legend, BEATLE, iconic drummer, one of the Fab Four! The Beatles music was and in someways still is the sound track of our lives. Having that brief conversation about Jesus with you was a blessing for Greg and me,” Cathe Laurie posted to Facebook.
The couple attended Starr’s birthday celebration where he played with both current and former members of his band, All Starr.
“The theme was ‘Peace and Love’. We know lasting peace and love is only found in our relationship with Jesus,” Cathe said.
The Lauries came of age when The Beatles ruled the music scene, and hippies around the world promoted “peace and love” as the United States engaged in international warfare. Much of the Lauries’ story is captured in JESUS REVOLUTION.
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According to the Movieguide® review, “JESUS REVOLUTION is an accurate, compressed portrait of the hippies and Vietnam War protestors who find Jesus because God calls several Christians to tell them about Jesus Christ. The plot is propelled by a love story between an impoverished young man, Greg Laurie, with an alcoholic mother, and Cathe, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy Southern California family. Cathe becomes burned out by the drug scene. She brings Greg to Pastor Chuck Smith’s growing church in Newport Beach. Lonnie Frisbee, a young hippie preacher, has convinced Chuck to open his church to the young, disaffected people who’ve been drawn to Southern California.”
Movieguide® selected JESUS REVOLUTION as the Best Movie for Mature Audiences in 2024.
The couple continues to evangelize at an international level with people around the world resonating with their testimony.
“I’m really surprised by how [JESUS REVOLUTION] just connected with so many people,” Greg said. “I think one of the unique features of this film is that it’s a multi-generational movie, like I’ve heard so many stories of the grandparents, the parents, and the kids and even grandkids coming and all of them connecting to some aspect of the movie because there’s so many stories woven together.”
Starr is far from the only music legend the Lauries have spoken to about Jesus.
“Had an amazing time today with my friend, Alice Cooper in Arizona,” Greg said in 2021. “We did an interview together and you are not going to believe what you hear when we release this. Alice talks about the emptiness of the life of the pursuit of fame and how he found everything he is looking for in his relationship with Christ. There is a lot of lore told about Alice, some true, some fiction. But I can tell you, having spent time today and other times I have been with him, this guy knows the Lord!”
Praise God for the Lauries’ impact.
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